Most reviews were very favourable, commenting on Rowling's imagination, humour, simple, direct style and clever plot construction, although a few complained that the final chapters seemed rushed.

More importantly, the clever and simple experiment demonstrated the validity of using balloons for planetary exploration.

The plan is simple but clever, and it succeeds: Wood and Fisher carry out the hijack of the bullion van and switch the gold to Pendlebury's works van.

In January, Rosebery had said to a friend that he found Hannah " very simple, very unspoilt, very clever, very warm-hearted and very shy ... I never knew such a beautiful character.

The Black formula is easily derived from use of Margrabe's formula, which in turn is a simple, but clever, application of the Black – Scholes formula.

Upright and simple men are difficult to deceive precisely because of their simplicity ; stratagems and clever arguments do not prevail upon them, they are not indeed subtle enough to be dupes.

Contains a very clever and simple method to find trilinear interpolation that is based on binary logic and can be extended to any dimension ( Tetralinear, Pentalinear, ...).

The wise man will accept this fate without complaint, but will not be fooled by all the nonsense of Confucius and Mozi about inherent virtue, universal love, and a good name: morality is a deception practised upon the simple by the clever ; universal love is the delusion of children, who do not know the universal enmity that forms the law of life ; and a good name is a posthumous bauble which the fools who paid so dearly for it cannot enjoy.

Follin's early 8-and 16-bit pieces were notable for their ambitious and imaginative use of samples, or clever manipulation of limited sound hardware-particularly with his work on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, on which he managed to play up to six channels of audio from one simple, tiny, clickable piezoelectric speaker.

It gives Everdingen his character as a precursor of Jacob Ruysdael in a certain form of landscape composition ; but though very skillful in arrangement and clever in effects, Everdingen remains much more simple in execution ; he is much less subtle in feeling or varied in touch than his great and incomparable countryman.

Described as being more clever than most of the senior officers, and known for spoiling good, long arguments by coming up with simple compromises.

In a review for Allmusic, Mark Deming said that the single " was a far cry from anything the Bangles had recorded before "; while Matthew Greenwald, also from the website, said " It's a clever and deceptively simple pop narrative, an infectious pop confection ...

A typical " Mike and Meyer " routine involved Mike, the short and clever one, unsuccessfully trying to coach Meyer, the tall and simple one, in a scheme to get them a free lunch at a working-class saloon.

According to Gornfeld, " His whole character, from the inability to understand foreign cultures to ingenuousness, humour, keenness of remarks and common sense-was that of a simple, if very clever, Russian muzhik.

Through the clever use of analogies and dramatic action sequences, Alex and Olivia explain how the body's immune system works in a simple and entertaining way.

No Logo, the book by the Canadian journalist Naomi Klein who criticized the production practices of multinational corporations and the omnipresence of brand-driven marketing in popular culture, has become " manifesto " of the movement, presenting in a simple way themes more accurately developed in other works.

Sir Humphry Davy's work with electrolysis led to the conclusion that the production of electricity in simple electrolytic cells resulted from chemical action and that chemical combination occurred between substances of opposite charge.

simple: Factors of production

Secretly produced " bathtub gin " was commonly available in the speakeasies and " blind pigs " of Prohibition-era America as a result of the relative simple production.

That is, the character of the production relations is determined by the character of the productive forces ; these could be the simple tools and instruments of early human existence, or the more developed machinery and technology of present age.

Lack of archaeological evidence of iron production made it seem unlikely that it had begun earlier elsewhere, and the Iron Age was seen as a case of simple diffusion of a new and superior technology from an invention point in the Near East to other regions.

His performance in the title role in a Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Hamlet was praised by Roger Lewis, the Sunday Times, who declared Reeves " … one of the top three Hamlets I have seen, for a simple reason: he is Hamlet.

Miso production is a relatively simple process and so home-made versions spread throughout Japan.

A simple proof assuming differentiable utility functions and production functions is the following.

Early systems emphasized predictable outcomes of an industrial product production line, using simple statistics and random sampling.

As the production of radioactive atoms by the ISOL technique depends on the free atom chemistry of the element to be studied, there are certain beams which cannot be produced by simple proton bombardment of thick actinide targets.

The reason is that the workloads of production systems have a random nature, and while the test workloads do their best to mimic what may happen in the production environment, it is impossible to exactly replicate this workload variability-except in the most simple system.

He then copied and improved the product and made it capable of being made on a simple production line.

Just as land became recognized as natural capital and an asset in itself, and human factors of production were raised from this simple mechanistic analysis to human capital.

simple: Means of production

Critical reactions to the album were largely positive ; Stephen Thompson in the Wisconsin State Journal described it as possessing " great lyrics, creative instrumentation and production that's about as simple as production gets ", Thomas Conner praised it for being " soulful and smooth, witty and gritty, this record makes the ghosts of Bob Wills, Buddy Holly and Lou Reed smile " in the Tulsa World, and Matt Weitz in the Dallas Observer noted its " gimlet eye and sardonic humor ".

With a few simple changes, Valjean revolutionizes the town's traditional black bead and bracelet production and gains a fortune, which he spends mostly for the town's good, paying for the maintenance ( including required staff ) of hospital beds, orphanages and schools.

In the Industrial Revolution simple mass production techniques were used at the Portsmouth Block Mills to make ships ' pulley blocks for the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars.

These simple and easily handled components ( called " bug logic ", due to their black rectangular bodies and tinned metal " legs ") are still used extensively in prototyping ( using plug-in " breadboards "), for applications where replaceable components in sockets are appropriate, and for limited production ( using printed circuit boards ).

Prototyping boards may be unsuitable for a simple single use or limited production circuit owing to cost, weight, or durability considerations, while printed circuit boards may also be uneconomical for such limited production, particularly for hobbyists.

Variety film critic Leonard Klady referred to the film as " a vanity production parading as a social statement " and commented that the film seemingly borrowed heavily from the earlier film, Billy Jack but opined that Seagal lacked " acting technique and the ability behind the camera to keep the story simple and direct " that Billy Jack star Tom Laughlin, exhibited.

It was really quite simple.

So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.

From the back of the barn it was a simple matter to reach Black's house without using the street.

As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.

He must have fallen in with evil companions, for he was a simple youth and quite trusting and inexperienced.

But Mercer's explanation was simple: `` I made out the check and carried it around a few days unsigned -- in case I lost it ''.

The song, he said, was called `` The Stream's Lullaby '', and when he sang, `` Gute ruh, Gute ruh, Mach't die augen zu, '' there was such longing and such simple sadness that it frightened me.

His answer was simple but honest.

How could the rich, for whom life was made so simple, ever understand the subterfuges, the lies, the frauds, the errors, sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life??

The equation was simple: wealth brought them happiness, and their united front to the world was their warning that they meant to keep everything they had, let no one in on the secrets.

At the same time he watched carefully to see how one attached pegboards to stone walls, but Mr. Blatz was usually standing in his line of vision and it all seemed so simple that he didn't like to disclose his ignorance.

Their world, again, was a still simple, traditional age which was only slowly beginning to appreciate the complexity of life.

Technique pure and simple, rendition, is not of major importance, but it is interesting that Parker, following Lester Young, was one of the leaders of the so-called saxophone revolution.

If he foresaw any problem because of the quality of the hymen, it was recommended that simple procedures be undertaken at once to incise the hymen or, preferably, to dilate it.

There was, of course, no hope it really would be that simple.

The evidence in court was testimony about the interview, which for Holmes lasted an hour, although at least one white student at Georgia got through this ritual by a simple phone conversation.

Although modern scholars have expressed surprise that `` the simple magic square of three '', a mere `` mathematical puzzle '', was able to exert a considerable influence on the minds and imaginations of the cultured Chinese for so many centuries, they could have found most of the answers right within the square itself.

It was a simple ivory crucifix which my mother had given me.

The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart `` for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were in a body for which it was built ''.

But I didn't really think it was as simple as that, nor did anyone else.

Its citizens spoke all of the world's surviving tongues, plus a new one called Lingo, a pidgin whose vocabulary was derived from the other six and whose syntax was so simple it could be contained on half a sheet of paper.